Afghanistan Times
KABUL: Taliban insurgents took control of some districts in the western province of Farah some three weeks ago in which at least 30 security forces were killed. Farah borders Iran’s province of Southern Khorasan. According to reports, the districts of Lash Jovain, Anar Dara and Posht Koh fell to Taliban.The …
Read More »US air force targets Taliban position in northern Afghanistan, media reports
AT News KABUL: Some Western media outlets report that the United States military had pounded by drone attacks Friday just hours before President Ghani’s meeting with his American counterpart Joe Biden in the White House. The Fox News has cited officials in the Pentagon, saying that the US army had …
Read More »Virus cases slightly decline, but oxygen crisis still unabated
AT News KABUL: Afghanistan has seen a significant decline in new coronavirus cases over the past day, as health officials say daily virus cases dropped to 1,095 on Saturday. But minister of health has said that hospitals are still facing an acute shortage of oxygen supplies which is making it …
Read More »GAAC donates food to IDPs
AT News KABUL: GAAC has distributed food rations to 500 families who are displaced due to ongoing conflicts in Ghazni, Bamyan, and Maidan Wardak provinces under leadership of Mustafa Shahab, Deputy Director of German Aid for Afghan Children. These people are destitute and living in abject poverty. GAAC is extending …
Read More »Over 250 Taliban killed as Afghan forces ramp up
AT News KABUL: At least 250 Taliban insurgents have been killed and 137 have been severely injured in military raids by Afghan armed forces across the war-battered country since Friday, the Defense Ministry said Saturday – the latest in a string of counterstrikes against belligerent Taliban attacks that have disrupted …
Read More »Army repels rebel attack in Samangan
AT News KABUL: Afghanistan’s armed forces have repelled a full-blown Taliban attack on a key district in northern Samangan province and killed a handful of insurgents and foiling their longstanding plan to capture the district centre. District Chief Haji Fazlullah on Saturday said Taliban insurgents had staged a full-scale dawn …
Read More »Officials warn of rapid spread of Indian coronavirus variant
AT News KABUL: As Afghan hospitals are overwhelmed with an increasing number of coronavirus patients, health officials are warning about a rapid spread of the highly contagious Indian-origin Delta variant across the nation. Addressing a conference on Saturday, Minister of Public Health Wahid Majrooh said test results in laboratories suggest …
Read More »Afghanistan records 1,575 new virus cases, 86 deaths
AT News KABUL: The Ministry of Public Health on Wednesday reported 1,575 new cases of coronavirus and 86 deaths across the country in the past 24 hours. The new cases come positive out of 5,096 suspected samples during the same period of time, according to the health ministry’s data. The …
Read More »Government mobilizing, arming people against Taliban
AT News KABUL: The government officials say they would arm and support those people who want to fight Taliban. Naqibullah Fayeq, the newly-appointed deputy interior minister, who is in Mazar-e-Sharif, a strategic city in the north to evaluate the security situation, said Wednesday that Kabul would support public mobilization against …
Read More »Editorial: Arming the nation, despite a 350,000-strong army
The government vows to fuel the residents in fighting against the Taliban as clashes proceeding across the country. The government seems desperate as the Taliban have recently captured several districts in North amid the withdrawal of international forces that arises tensions over an upcoming civil wars. The distribution of weapons …
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